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Letters Patent No. 98,892, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLANT-PROTECTORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, WATSON N. Siemens, of Keene, in the county of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and improved Plant- Protector; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the let-ters of reference marked thereon.

My protector is intended f0.1` the same purpose as others bearing the name, viz, for protecting young plants from insects, worms, 85e., at the same time at'- brding some shelter from hard winds and mins, 4and early frosts'.

Figure 1 represents an exterior view of the protector,-in use, withl the supporting-sticks thrust into the ground.

Figure 2 is an interior View.

The hoop or ting b is laid on the ground, or pressed into the ground, the netting a being supported by the sticks or hoops c. i 4

In the transportation of plant-protectors which have the suppolting-stick come separately, there is always danger of the stick losing; whilein plant-protectors l which have the supporting-sticks secured to and fastened to themselves, there is great diic-ultyin packing them in a small compass. y

I t is proposed toobviate these difficult-ies by making the supportingsticks or hoops adjustable, and also of such a size and length that they can be packed inside the hoop b, thus making but one package, and economising space. Y

lhe supporting-sticks orv hoops c slip in and outvof the tins d, thus making the sticks adjustable.

I do not claim the hoop b as my invention, neither do I claim a supportinghoop or stick which comes down simply to the surface of the ground,

l claim nothing vhatever that is mentioned in. United .States patent No. 87,313, as my method of constructing a plant-protector is entirely different from that'descrihed in the above-named patent, my sticks y or supporters being detachable, and that,not.

What I claim, and desire, to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The adjustable hoops or stinks c, three or more in number, extending six inches or more below'the ring b, combined with the tins l1, for the purpose ofV h'olding lthe hoops c in place, in the manner above de-. scribed, in a plant-protector.

i WATSON N. SPRAGUE.

- Witnesses:

AMos F. FIsKn,

JAMES BURNAP. 

